Mountain West Regional Riders Picked for USA Cycling World Championships Team

Allie Dragoo (in yellow) at the Tour of Utah Womens Edition 2015. She will race for Team USA in the upcoming World Road Race Championships in Richmond, VA. Photo by Dave Iltis

2015 UCI Road World Championships rosters named
(Sept. 4, 2015) – USA Cycling announced Friday the first 29 members of the 2015 UCI Road World Championships roster, naming 16 men and 13 women who make up the elite, U23 and juniors road race and time trial teams. Riders with Utah ties include new Utah resident Allie Dragoo, and Utah native Tayler Wiles (now of Fairfax, CA). They will ride on the elite women's squad. Additionally, Pocatello's Colin Joyce will race in the U-23 road race. Boise's Kristin Armstrong will represent the US in the elite women's time trial. Cortlan Brown will ride the team time trial for Astellas Cycling Team. Team Time Trial Start lists and Results here (2016 (Allie Dragoo) 5th, Pepper Palace (Tina Pic) 12th, BMW (Breanne Nalder) 13th.)

Breanne Nalder (DNA Cycling), Tina Pic, and Allie Dragoo will be racing the Team Time Trial. Nalder will ride for BMW p/b Happy Tooth Dental and Dragoo for Twenty16. Pic will ride for Pepper Palace.
USA Cycling will name the remaining elite men’s road race and time trial spots prior to the UCI mandated deadline of Sept. 11.

The 2015 UCI Road World Championships will run Sept. 20-27 in Richmond, Va. This is the first UCI Road World Championships held on American soil since the 1986 edition in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Sixteen of the allotted 37 road race and time trial spots are automatic bids, while Carmen Small (Durango, Colo./Bigla Pro Cycling Team) earned a women’s individual time trial bid by winning the Continental Championship in May.